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First cloned dog, "Snuppy"

3 August 2005

Scientists announced today the first cloned dog, "Seoul National University Puppy", or Snuppy, was created by the same team under Woo Suk Hwang that brought us the first cloned human embryo. The work was published today in Nature and covered by all media outlets, including BBC, NPR, New Scientist.

Cloning a dog was particularly difficult and has been hotly competed for years. Other highlights of cloning history:

1996 - Dolly the sheep
2001 - Carbon Copy (cc) the cat
2003 - Idaho Gem the mule
2003 - Ralph the Rat
2004 - unnamed human embryo